Ancestor Quote by Helen Bosanquet

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate…

— Michael O'Keefe

When you're part of a group and your whole family and whole world is so small, no one just joins a cult. It's you…

— Ti West

Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to…

— Stephen Spender

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as…

— Rachel Cusk

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so,…

— Christopher Hitchens

All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and…

— James Purefoy

“Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed are believed…

— Lewis Spence

On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed home of…

— August Strindberg

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

— Joe Rogan

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and…

— Jonathan Haidt

We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without…

— Spencer W. Kimball